Lisa Jane Ashes

Lisa is an experienced Professional Development provider for all things teaching and learning. An Advanced Skills English Teacher by trade, she specialises in literacy across the curriculum. Her mission is to eradicate pupils being let down by a disjointed secondary curriculum and to share as widely as possible her experience, showing how change is possible.

Although it was Abraham Lincoln who said that ‘The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present’ Lisa is happy to take that as one of hers. With an English and Literacy background stretching from Classroom Assistant to Teaching and Learning Leader, Lisa is on a mission to help schools break away from how they’ve traditionally arranged things and embrace a whole new way of looking at the curriculum.

Best embodied in Manglish, her unique approach to combining whole-school literacy and numeracy, Lisa’s work shows how truly creative schools make learning more real and relevant. In doing so, all children benefit, regardless of background and academic ability.A classroom practitioner first and foremost, Lisa is making a name for herself, sharing her work on creativity, engagement, teaching and learning, curriculum design, technology and showing how schools can, to go back to Lincoln, ‘disenthrall’ themselves from the past.

Areas of Expertise

✓ Creativity

✓ Assessment for and of learning

✓ Behaviour Management

✓ Thinking Skills

✓ Cross-curricular cooperation

You can also hear Lisa speak about "Developing rich formative assessment and maintaining a broad curriculum despite a high-stakes test environment"at Upton House School on Friday 28th September 2018 - FREE OF CHARGE! You will also receive a free copy of Lisa's book, "Teacher in the cupboard".